HOLLYWOOD - Troubled director Roman Polanski testified at his London libel caseJuly 18 that he had sex with a catalogue of "fresh-faced, nubile"
teenagers, just four months after his wife Sharon Tate was murdered by
followers of serial killer Charles Manson.
The Oscar-winning The Pianist director is suing publisher Conde Nast, over a Vanity
Fair article, in which he's accused of propositioning a woman on the way to the
funeral of his actress wife in 1969, with the promise he'd make her "the next
Sharon Tate".
The 71-year-old gave evidence from France via video link to avoid extradition
to America, where he's wanted for questioning on child sex charges dating back
to 1977.
The prosecution suggested Polanski had a penchant for young ladies, and such
an uncontrollable libido, he seduced a string of women less than a month after
the death of Tate, who was eight month's pregnant.
But the Polish film-maker told jurors he took solace in sex following Tate's
death, and seduced numerous teenagers from a finishing school in Gstaad,
Switzerland, as well as an air hostess and Mamas and Papas singer Michelle
Phillips, who was still married to band mate John Phillips at the time.
He told the court, "The death of Sharon and the whole tragedy was a
measurable shock to me and at such moments some people turn to drugs, others to
alcohol, some go to a monastery. But for me, it was sex. I looked for solace
and tried to forget."
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